Liver and Gallbladder

• What is the heaviest gland of the body?

  Liver
• What is the weight of the liver in an average adult?

  1.4 kg
• Gallbladder: PEAR-SHAPED SAC located in a depression of the posterior surface of the LIVER.
• What secretes bile?

  Liver
• What stores bile?

  Gallbladder
• What aids in the EMULSIFICATION of lipids in the small intestine?

  Bile
• Bilirubin: principal bile pigment
• Stercobilin: gives BROWN color to feces.